{"id":670,"date":"2022-04-19T10:03:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T08:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carriej.cluster030.hosting.ovh.net\/decouvrir-la-carriere\/histoire-de-la-carriere\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T10:44:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T08:44:48","slug":"histoire-de-la-carriere","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.carrierewellington.com\/en\/histoire-de-la-carriere\/","title":{"rendered":"L&rsquo;histoire de la Carri\u00e8re Wellington"},"content":{"rendered":"<script>\n\n    function background() {\n        var desktopbg = \"https:\/\/www.carrierewellington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/C\u201ar\u201amonie-du-Lever-du-Jour-\u00b8-Cituation-et-Ensemble-scaled.jpg\";  \n        var mobilebg = \"https:\/\/www.carrierewellington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/538468_e7c827a6c23c4459bc803530eae08051_mv2.jpeg\";\n\n        document.write(\"<style> .headerarticle{ background-image : url('\"+ desktopbg +\"') } @media (max-width: 700px), screen and (orientation: portrait) { .headerarticle{ background-image : url('\"+ mobilebg +\"') !important}} <\/style>\"); \n\t}\n    background()\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:22px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-advanced-heading uagb-block-32885750\" id=\"Une_base_militaire_secr\u00e8te__m\u00e8tres_sous_terre\"><h2 class=\"uagb-heading-text\"><strong>A SECRET MILITARY BASE 20\nMETRES BELOW GROUND<\/strong><\/h2><p class=\"uagb-desc-text\">During the First World War, the British army discovered the\nextraordinary potential of Arras\u2019 subsurface: a vast network of chalk\nquarry tunnels stretched out from the centre to the east of the town.\nRediscover the history of the Wellington Quarry from the Middle\nAges until present day.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-uagb-columns uagb-columns__wrap uagb-columns__background-none uagb-columns__stack-mobile uagb-columns__valign- uagb-columns__gap-10 align uagb-block-35a1acf4 uagb-columns__columns-2 uagb-columns__max_width-theme\"><div class=\"uagb-columns__overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"uagb-columns__inner-wrap uagb-columns__columns-2\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-column uagb-column__wrap uagb-column__background-undefined uagb-block-b1d47b66\"><div class=\"uagb-column__overlay\"><\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"877\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carrierewellington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Dessin-Carriere-med008-1024x877.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carrierewellington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Dessin-Carriere-med008-1024x877.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.carrierewellington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Dessin-Carriere-med008-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carrierewellington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Dessin-Carriere-med008-768x658.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.carrierewellington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Dessin-Carriere-med008-14x12.jpg 14w, https:\/\/www.carrierewellington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Dessin-Carriere-med008.jpg 1380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-column uagb-column__wrap uagb-column__background-undefined uagb-block-f2417e12\"><div class=\"uagb-column__overlay\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color\">The origins<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-ast-global-color-7-color has-text-color\" id=\"Une_exploitation_des_carri\u00e8res_de_craie_\u00e0_partir_du_Xe_si\u00e8cle\">A chalk quarry from as early as the 10th century<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#000000;font-size:17px\">D\u00e8s le Xe si\u00e8cle, des carri\u00e8res sont exploit\u00e9es \u00a0dans les sous-sols de la ville d\u2019Arras pour en extraire la craie n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 la construction des remparts et des \u00e9difices religieux (et \u00e0 partir du XVIe si\u00e8cle pour les habitations). Les carri\u00e8res sont exploit\u00e9es jusqu\u2019au XVIIIe si\u00e8cle avant de tomber dans l\u2019oubli.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-center is-image-fill\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 56%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color\">L&rsquo;exploitation<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left has-ast-global-color-7-color has-text-color\" id=\"Une_exploitation_des_carri\u00e8res_de_craie_\u00e0_partir_du_Xe_si\u00e8cle\">The role of the New Zealand Tunnelling\nCompany during the First World War<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-color\" style=\"color:#000000;font-size:17px\">In 1916, the British discovered the potential of these forgotten chalk quarries.\nIn November of the same year, the Allies were mounting the 1917 spring\noffensive: a British diversionary attack in Artois, followed by a French attack at\nthe Chemin des Dames. The British stroke of genius was to have the former\nchalk extraction tunnels below the town linked up to create a network of\nunderground barracks which could accommodate up to 24,000 soldiers while\nwaiting for the Battle of Arras to start. The mission was entrusted to the New\nZealand Tunnelling Company who, in just 6 months, accomplished a feat that\nis considered as the greatest engineering achievement of the Great War.<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.carrierewellington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/New-Zealand-Tunnelling-Company-in-Arras-1917-1.jpg);background-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"612\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carrierewellington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/New-Zealand-Tunnelling-Company-in-Arras-1917-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1180 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carrierewellington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/New-Zealand-Tunnelling-Company-in-Arras-1917-1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.carrierewellington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/New-Zealand-Tunnelling-Company-in-Arras-1917-1-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carrierewellington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/New-Zealand-Tunnelling-Company-in-Arras-1917-1-768x490.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-ast-global-color-7-color has-text-color\" id=\"Dans_les_ann\u00e9es__les_arch\u00e9ologues_r\u00e9v\u00e8lent_une_histoire_oubli\u00e9e\" style=\"text-transform:none\">In the 1990s, archaeologists unearthed a lost history<\/h4>\n\n\n<figure itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\t\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carrierewellington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_1753-scaled-e1687582581174.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width : 100% ; height : 400px; object-fit : cover; margin : 15px 0;\"> \n\n\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"  style=\"max-width: 300px\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"  itemprop=\"caption\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"media-credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\"><\/span>\t\t<\/figcaption>\n\t<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>At the start of the 1990s, archaeologists from the town of Arras\nwere exploring the calcareous stone extraction sites in the south\neast of the town when they discovered the history and the role\nthese underground tunnels played during the First World War. The\ninformation they gleaned, particularly the thousands of British wall\ninscriptions, revealed the strategic role these tunnels played during\nthe 1917 military offensive, exposing a veritable underground town,\ncapable of accommodating up to 24,000 soldiers in total secrecy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-uagb-columns uagb-columns__wrap uagb-columns__background-none uagb-columns__stack-mobile uagb-columns__valign- uagb-columns__gap-10 align uagb-block-8182e507 uagb-columns__columns-2 uagb-columns__max_width-theme\"><div class=\"uagb-columns__overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"uagb-columns__inner-wrap uagb-columns__columns-2\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-column uagb-column__wrap uagb-column__background-undefined uagb-block-9f3de8ea\"><div class=\"uagb-column__overlay\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carrierewellington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4574-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carrierewellington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4574-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.carrierewellington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4574-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.carrierewellington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4574-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.carrierewellington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4574-9x12.jpg 9w, https:\/\/www.carrierewellington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4574.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption itemprop=\"caption\" class=\"wp-element-caption\"><span class=\"media-credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">Antoine Wacogne<\/span> Projection d&rsquo;une photographie d&rsquo;archives sur un mur de la carriere<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-column uagb-column__wrap uagb-column__background-undefined uagb-block-faf0c37b\"><div class=\"uagb-column__overlay\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color\">The Wellington Quarry is now a museum<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:32px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Vingt ans \u00e0 peine apr\u00e8s les premi\u00e8res fouilles arch\u00e9ologiques, la carri\u00e8re Wellington ouvre au public en 2008\u00a0: un circuit de visite guid\u00e9 et audioguid\u00e9, \u00e0 20 m\u00e8tres de profondeur accessible par un ascenseur. Ce site reconnu \u00e0 l\u2019international offre depuis novembre 2021 un nouveau centre d\u2019interpr\u00e9tation et une nouvelle sc\u00e9nographie du parcours souterrain. Plus \u00e9mouvante et plus immersive cette visite renouvel\u00e9e vous plonge litt\u00e9ralement dans l\u2019histoire de la Bataille d\u2019Arras \u00e0 la rencontre des soldats britanniques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-marketing-button uagb-marketing-btn__align-right uagb-marketing-btn__align-text-center uagb-marketing-btn__icon-after uagb-block-3a11d50e wp-block-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carrierewellington.com\/en\/boutique\/\" class=\"uagb-marketing-btn__link wp-block-button__link\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"uagb-marketing-btn__title\">Visiter la Carri\u00e8re Wellington<\/span><p class=\"uagb-marketing-btn__prefix\"><\/p><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Une base militaire secr\u00e8te 20 m\u00e8tres sous terre Pendant la Premi\u00e8re Guerre mondiale, l\u2019arm\u00e9e britannique d\u00e9couvre l\u2019extraordinaire potentiel du sous-sol d\u2019Arras&nbsp;: une multitude de carri\u00e8res de craie&nbsp;s\u2019\u00e9parpillent du centre jusqu\u2019\u00e0 l\u2019est de la ville. Red\u00e9couvrez l\u2019histoire de la Carri\u00e8re Wellington du Moyen \u00c2ge jusqu\u2019\u00e0 aujourd\u2019hui. 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